"We're trying to gear ourselves for being able to take these dogs." Photo: Jay Cronan

Etheridge said smaller trainers looking to get out of the greyhound industry were coming to Friends of the Hound, who have a no kill policy.

"Quite a few are ringing up and saying they're thinking of getting out of the business voluntarily and would we be able to take their 10 dogs or 15 dogs," she said.

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"They're all running scared and if they're not making a great deal of money out of the dogs they're just going 'Oh well, it's (not) worth it'."

With more than 100 dogs already reportedly seized, with no public announcement on their fate, Etheridge said the group was concerned for the animals' welfare.

"Hopefully no harm will come to them because they've been numbered," she said.

"We're trying to gear ourselves for being able to take these dogs.

"We're trying to get some kennels because obviously we don't have the facilities, so we're trying to get ourselves placed so when there is a big influx of dogs we are able to take them."

"Eventually we're not going to be able to take them because there are so many. I suppose the real truth of the matter is a lot of them will be put down."

Gumtree Greys founder Tracy McLaren said the awareness generated in the wake of the live baiting revelations had lifted their adoption enquiries by 20 per cent.

McLaren's organisation was set up to stop the practice of dogs being given away on trading site Gumtree and ending up in the hands of pig hunters.

McLaren said the live baiting scandal had brought the welfare of greyhounds to the forefront of people's minds.

"The public have just become much more aware about what's going on and they're very passionate about it.

"People I work with who know what I do have never really been that interested and all of a sudden some of them are very very passionate about it they were really upset by the Four Corners story.

"I think the racing industry doesn't realise that it's not just people working in rescue, it's average Joe Blow in the street that is really disgusted and appalled by what they've found out is going on."

Racing Queensland has seized more than 100 dogs since the scandal though that could increase after the announcement of a further 23 suspended trainers on Tuesday.

Kathmandu founder and philanthropist Jan Cameron last month offered her 250 hectare Tasmania property as a potential refuge for any seized dogs.